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Headword:
*ei)/toi
Adler number: epsiloniota,339
Translated headword: if (you) really
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "If you really think that stubbornness is a valuable thing without good sense, you are not thinking straight." -- "If you really think that you will not pay a penalty for doing harm to a man who is your relative, you are not thinking well."
Sophocles [sc. writes this].
*ei)/toi nomi/zeis kth=ma th\n au)qadi/an ei)=nai/ ti tou= nou= xwri/s, ou)k o)rqw=s fronei=s. ei)/toi nomi/zeis a)/ndra suggenh= kakw=s drw=n ou)x u(fe/cein th\n di/khn, ou)k eu)= fronei=s. *sofoklh=s.
Note:
A sharp exchange between Creon [
Author,
Myth] and Oedipus in
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 549-552 (web address 1). Here the particle
toi --originally dative of the second singular personal pronoun (and printed as a separate word in modern editions) -- is used, by both speakers, to reinforce a direct address.
Web address 1
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 July 2005@22:59:12.
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